{"id":33239,"date":"2026-01-18T01:03:53","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T05:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=33239"},"modified":"2026-01-24T00:08:01","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T04:08:01","slug":"mostly-brass-snd-glass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/mostly-brass-snd-glass\/","title":{"rendered":"mostly brass and glass"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_33240\" style=\"width: 233px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/brass.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-33240\" class=\"size-full wp-image-33240\" src=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/brass-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"223\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/brass-sm.jpg 223w, https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/brass-sm-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 223px) 100vw, 223px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-33240\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">an old brass triplex lens and shutter &#8211; lot 469 in the Jan 25, 2026 PHSC Auction<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Toronto<\/strong>. \u00a0In the 1800s brass was often used to manufacture scientific instruments (like microscopes) as it was easy to machine, stable, and inexpensive.<\/p>\n<p>A natural follow on was early small brass cameras and \u00a0brass mounts for photographic lenses. More commonly the camera body was made of wood often with a leather bellows for focussing.<\/p>\n<p>In our coming <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/jan-25-2026-museum-auction-part-2\/\">auction<\/a>, lot 469 shown here is this wonderful old lens and shutter assembly attached to a small wooden lens board. At the lower right of the lens proper is a spring adjustment for changing the shutter speed. This suggests the lens setup was used on a dry plate field camera (perhaps).<\/p>\n<p>Come down to our Feb 15, 2026 auction \u00a0(IMPORTANT: OUR JAN 25th AUCTION WAS RESCHEDULED TO FEB 15th DUE TO BAD WEATHER) in southwest Toronto and see (and bid) the many lots of photographic collectibles and usables&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. \u00a0In the 1800s brass was often used to manufacture scientific instruments (like microscopes) as it was easy to machine, stable, and inexpensive. A natural follow on was early small brass cameras and \u00a0brass mounts for photographic lenses. More commonly &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/mostly-brass-snd-glass\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[500,34,279],"class_list":["post-33239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-auction","tag-accessories","tag-cameras","tag-lenses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33239"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33341,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33239\/revisions\/33341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}